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SIGMOD 2026 Awards

SIGMOD 2026 Research Track Best Paper

GPM: The Gaussian Pancake Mechanism for Planting Undetectable Backdoors in Differential Privacy Haochen Sun (University of Waterloo) and Xi He (University of Waterloo)

SIGMOD 2026 Research Track Honorable Mentions

F3: The Open-Source Data File Format for the Future Xinyu Zeng (Tsinghua University), Ruijun Meng (Tsinghua University), Martin Prammer (Carnegie Mellon University), Wes McKinney (Posit PBC), Jignesh Patel (Carnegie Mellon University), Andrew Pavlo (Carnegie Mellon University), and Huanchen Zhang (Tsinghua University)

Integrating Vector Databases across Embedding Models Beining Yang (University of Edinburgh), Yang Cao (University of Edinburgh), and Yang Ren (Edinburgh Research Center, Central Software Institute, Huawei)

Sublime: Sublinear Error & Space for Unbounded Skewed Streams Navid Eslami (University of Toronto), Ioana Bercea (KTH Royal Institute of Technology), Rasmus Pagh (BARC, University of Copenhagen), Niv Dayan (University of Toronto)

The best paper selection committee members are Dan Olteanu, Divesh Srivastava (chair), Renata Borovica-Gajic, Tilmann Rabl, and Zack Ives.

SIGMOD 2026 Best Demo Winner

Demonstration of Vega-Video: Incorporating Video into the Grammar of Interactive Graphics Dominik Winecki (The Ohio State University), Arnab Nandi (The Ohio State University)

SIGMOD 2026 Best Demo Honorable Mention

RETRO: A Visual Tool for Understanding Cardinality Estimation Errors For Database Education Yani Zhang (Xidian University), Bingying Zhai (Xidian University), Hui Li (Xidian University), Sourav Bhowmick (Nanyang Technological University)

SIGMOD 2026 Industry Track Best Paper

CoddSpeed: Hardware Accelerated Query Processing in Microsoft Fabric Matteo Interlandi (Microsoft)*; Nicolas Bruno (Microsoft); Brandon Haynes (Microsoft); Carlo Curino (Microsoft); Rathijit Sen (Microsoft); Yinan Li (Microsoft); Kaushik Rajan (Microsoft); Bailu Ding (Microsoft); Lukas Maas (Microsoft); Wei Cui (Microsoft); Kevin Gaffney (Microsoft); Mingsheng Hong (Microsoft); Brian Kroth (Microsoft); Sampath Rajenda (Microsoft); Peng Cheng (Microsoft); Surajit Chaudhuri (Microsoft); Johannes Gehrke (Microsoft); Raghu Ramakrishnan (Microsoft); Lidong Zhou (Microsoft); Momin Al-Ghosien (Microsoft); Craig Peeper (Microsoft); Marius Dumitru (Microsoft); Conor Cunningham (Microsoft); Kevin Bocksrocker (Microsoft); Prasanna Sundar (Microsoft); Ron Boskovic (Microsoft); YongChul Kwon (Microsoft); Marko Zivanovic (Microsoft); Runbin Shi (Microsoft); Krystian Sakowski (Microsoft); Denis Lamtsov (Microsoft); Josep Aguilar Saborit (Microsoft); Krish Srinivasan (Microsoft); Adarsh Kapil (Microsoft); Andrew Putnam (Microsoft); Anudeep Kambapu (Microsoft); Aparna Konduri (Microsoft); Aaron Landy (Microsoft); Aaron Moore (Microsoft); Aaron Pitman (Microsoft); Artem Oks (Microsoft); Ashit Gosalia (Microsoft); Babu Kandimalla (Microsoft); Blake Pelton (Microsoft); Bogdan Crivat (Microsoft); Cesar Galindo-Legaria (Microsoft); Chidamber Kulkarni (Microsoft); Esteban Calvo (Microsoft); Evgeny Babin (Microsoft); Hans Lehnert Marino (Microsoft); Igor Konev (Microsoft); Israel Arroyo (Microsoft); Jesus Camacho Rodriguez (Microsoft); Luis Penaranda (Microsoft); Mandar Datar (Microsoft); Morten Borup Petersen (Microsoft); Nicholas Simmons (Microsoft); Parminder Poonian (Microsoft); Pravija Danda (Microsoft); Rob Rydberg (Microsoft); Ronak Bajaj (Microsoft); Sai Sumanth Kammal Shetty (Microsoft); Sharanya Bhat (Microsoft); Zach Iracheta (Microsoft)

SIGMOD 2026 Industry Track Honorable Mention

Enzyme: Incremental View Maintenance for Data Engineering Ritwik Yadav (Databricks, Inc.); Supun Abeysinghe (Databricks, Inc.); Min Yang (Databricks, Inc.); Jeffrey Helt (Databricks, Inc.); Manuel Ung (Databricks, Inc.); Yuhong Chen (Databricks, Inc.); Melody Hu (Databricks, Inc.); William Wei (Databricks, Inc.); Yiming Yang (Databricks, Inc.); Tom van Bussel (Databricks, Inc.); Sourav Chatterji (Databricks, Inc.); Indrajit Roy (Databricks, Inc.); Paul Lappas (Google, Inc.); Yannis Papakonstantinou (Google, Inc.); Tahir Fayyaz (Databricks, Inc.); Bilal Aslam (Databricks, Inc.); Ross Bunker (Databricks, Inc.); Michael Armbrust (Databricks, Inc.); Shrikanth Shankar (Databricks, Inc.)

SIGMOD Test-of-time award (2026)

The Snowflake Elastic Data Warehouse Benoit Dageville (Snowflake Computing), Thierry Cruanes (Snowflake Computing), Marcin Zukowski (Snowflake Computing), Vadim Antonov (Snowflake Computing), Artin Avanes (Snowflake Computing), Jon Bock (Snowflake Computing), Jonathan Claybaugh (Snowflake Computing), Daniel Engovatov (Snowflake Computing), Martin Hentschel, Jiansheng Huang (Snowflake Computing), Allison W. Lee (Snowflake Computing), Ashish Motivala (Snowflake Computing), Abdul Q. Munir (Snowflake Computing), Steven Pelley (Snowflake Computing), Peter Povinec (Snowflake Computing), Greg Rahn (Snowflake Computing), Spyridon Triantafyllis (Snowflake Computing), Phillipp Unterbrunner (Snowflake Computing)

SIGMOD Contributions Award (2026)

Divyakant Agrawal (University of California Santa Barbara)

SIGMOD Edgar F. Codd Innovations Award (2026)

H.V. Jagadish (University of Michigan)

SIGMOD Jim Gray Doctoral Dissertation Award (2026)

Winners:

Advancing Join Algorithms for Real-world Queries Hangdong Zhao (Advisor: Paraschos Koutris), University of Wisconsin

Vector-Centric Machine Learning Systems: A Cross-Stack Approach Wenqi Jiang (Advisor: Gustavo Alonso) ETH Zurich

Runner-Ups:

Data-Aware Complexity Analysis and Program Optimization by Fine-grained Reuse and Feature Kyle Deeds, (Advisors: Dan Suciu and Magdalena Balazinska), University of Washington

Fine-grained Reuse and Feature Transformations in Machine Learning Systems Arnab Phani (Advisor: Matthias Boehm), BIFOLD and TU Berlin

A Twofold Strategy Towards Mature Quantum Data Management Manuel Schönberger (Advisors: Wolfgang Mauerer), OTH Regensburg

SIGMOD Distinguished AEs (2026)

  • Aditya Parameswaran, University of California, Berkeley
  • Amol Deshpande, University of Maryland at College Park
  • Arnd König, Microsoft
  • Boon Thau Loo, Univ. of Pennsylvania
  • Chris Jermaine, Rice University
  • Dan Olteanu, University of Zurich
  • Divesh Srivastava, AT&T Chief Data Office
  • Eugene Wu, Columbia University
  • Floris Geerts, University of Antwerp
  • Juliana Freire, New York University
  • Kenneth Salem, University of Waterloo
  • Manos Athanassoulis, Boston University
  • Paolo Papotti, EURECOM
  • Peter Boncz, Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica
  • S. Sudarshan, IIT Bombay
  • Sharad Mehrotra, U.C. Irvine
  • Surajit Chaudhuri, Microsoft
  • Tamer Özsu, University of Waterloo
  • Tilmann Rabl, Hasso Plattner Institute, University of Potsdam
  • Wolfgang Gatterbauer, Northeastern University

SIGMOD Outstanding Reviewers (2026)

  • Aidan Hogan, Universidad de Chile, Chile
  • Graham Cormode, University of Oxford
  • Hank Korth, Lehigh University
  • Qichen Wang, Nanyang Technological University

SIGMOD Distinguished Reviewers (2026)

  • Adina Crainiceanu, US Naval Academy
  • Ahmed Eldawy, University of California, Riverside
  • Alberto Lerner, Computing Flows GmbH
  • Alexander Boehm, SAP SE
  • Amr Magdy, University of California Riverside
  • Andreas Kipf, University of Technology Nuremberg
  • Andrew Pavlo, Carnegie Mellon University
  • Antonis Deligiannakis, Technical University of Crete
  • Anupam Sanghi, IIT Hyderabad
  • Arijit Khan, Bowling Green State University
  • Bailu Ding, Microsoft Research
  • Bernhard Seeger, University of Marburg
  • Brit Youngmann, Technion - Israel institute of technology
  • Clemens Lutz, NVIDIA
  • Denis Hirn, Universität Tübingen
  • Donatella Firmani, Sapienza University
  • Enzo Veltri, Universit√† della Basilicata
  • Eser Kandogan, Megagon Labs
  • Faisal Nawab, University of California at Irvine
  • Felix Schuhknecht, U Mainz
  • Florian Kerschbaum, University of Waterloo
  • Florin Rusu, UC Merced
  • Hannes Voigt, Neo4j
  • Haozhe Zhang, University of Zurich
  • Hazar Harmouch, University of Amsterdam
  • Holger Pirk, Imperial College
  • Ibrahim Sabek, University of Southern California
  • Ioannis Demertzis, UCSC
  • Jana Giceva, Technical University of Munich
  • John Paparrizos, The Ohio State University, USA & Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
  • Kaisong Huang, University of Calgary
  • Kexin Rong, Georgia Institute of Technology
  • Konstantinos Karanasos, Meta
  • Martin Boissier, Hasso Plattner Institute, University of Potsdam
  • Matthias Weidlich, Hasso Plattner Institute, University of Potsdam
  • Michael Abebe, Salesforce
  • Michael Bohlen, University of Zurich
  • Milos Nikolic, University of Edinburgh
  • Muhammad El-Hindi, Technische Universit√§t M√ºnchen
  • Nicolas Bruno, Microsoft
  • Nikolaos Tziavelis, UC Santa Cruz
  • Nikos Mamoulis, University of Ioannina
  • Niv Dayan, University of Toronto
  • Norman May, SAP SE
  • Parke Godfrey, York University
  • Pierre Senellart, ENS, PSL University
  • Rachel Pottinger, Univ. of British Columbia
  • Ryan Marcus, University of Pennsylvania
  • Sebastian Breß, Snowflake
  • Sebastian Link, University of Auckland
  • Sepanta Zeighami, University of California Berkeley
  • Shaleen Deep, Microsoft Gray Systems Lab
  • Shantanu Sharma, New Jersey Institute of Technology
  • Silu Huang, Bytedance
  • Stavros Sintos, University of Illinois Chicago
  • Sujaya Maiyya, University of Waterloo
  • Sven Helmer, University of Zurich
  • Tiemo Bang, Microsoft - Gray Systems Lab
  • Tobias Ziegler, Technische Universit√§t M√ºnchen
  • Torben Bach Pedersen, Aalborg University
  • Uwe Roehm, The University of Sydney
  • Varun Pandey, BIFOLD, TU Berlin
  • Vasiliki Kalavri, Boston University
  • Viktor Sanca, Oracle
  • Wook-Shin Han, POSTECH
  • Xi He, University of Waterloo
  • Yannis Chronis, ETH Zurich
  • Yannis Foufoulas, Athena Research Center
  • Zhouyue Zhao, University at Buffalo
  • Zichen Zhu, Google